VoL VII, No. 44.—-Whole No. .356. THE PRESIDENT'S LITTER TO THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. Thb writer is free to confess thathe has sometimes thought President Lincoln a little too. moderate in some of his movements ; such as hanging rebels, spies, etq., and, in bring ing colored men into the army. Still he. has ever upheld the Administration as the Gov ernment. It is his belief that 200,000 col-' ored men might have been now in the field, and done already good service for the coun try. If'suoh men as George Washington and Andrew Jackson‘could use colored men u* soldiers, and commend them for their gallant, service, why should not Abraham Lincoln do the same ? Surely colored men are no, bet ter (allowing them to be as good) than, white men. Their lives are no more valuable. Why, then, not use them ? But as the Ad ministration, seems to be in an improving state upon this subject, he will not attempt* to throw any barrier in the way of this pro- gress. In his recent letter to the Albany Vallan digham sympathisers, the President seems to have given their logic a crushing blow. It is a shrewd, common sense, logical document, containing many sarcastic ‘thrusts at the whole race of northern secessionists, or South-* era sympathisers. Some of these thrusts are; so keen that we need look sharply to see their edge. ■ The southern rebels have ever professed to be great sticklers for the Constitution, contending; that nothing in lit ’hould be so construed as to coerce them to obey the Gov ernment. These northern sympathisers say the same. They are greatly afraid that “ free speech,” a “free press,” ahd a free license, or in other words, a free body to go where they please, are all to be jeopardised. Most effectually does the President dispose of all these matters, So adroitly indeed, has he done it, that it seems as though he who Would attempt to bring them up again, ought to feel himself diminutive enough to creep into a very small auger hole. Dare lhese half rebels do it ? Then how ridiculous does ' the 1 President make the thing look that the man, the poor, ignorant man who has been induced toi vio late the law, —he must Suffer— he must be shot, while the sage aristocrat, the, adviter and abetter of the act , should remain un touched. The real instigators of all the atrocious acts of rebellion must “ go unwhipt of justice,” while Ijhe poor, unlettered sol dier who was bid to do the deed, must be executed! 1 Then, again, how does the President dis pose of the fears of these men that the com munity will get so accustomed to emetics, which did good service when they were sick, that they will wish to continue them as food when they are well! t . If he has not here given this whole race of southern sympathisers an emetic of the heroic kind, theti it is difficult to say how he could haver given them one. It is no homeo pathic dose. It is rather one of the good old orthodox tartar-emetic kind,: which the Old School doctors used to give thirty, years ago. What a sa,d dilemma these poor Albany se cessionists must be in! Who does not pity them ? Thanks to a kind Providence, the Pres : - dent knows what the Constitution says he tnay; do “in time of rebellion or invasion,’* and he will do it* Thanks, again, that he knows better, and will do better, than “to shoot a simple-minded soldier boy; for. desertion, while he must not touch a hair - of the wily agitator who induces him to desert.” 'When I first saw this letter, I had some, misgivings whether the Executive officer of this great natiori had not lowered himself in the judgment of the world,* by condescending to answer a party of sympathising seceders, who had, presumed to insult him and the Union, by, their obtruding, nonsense. But, upon second thought, and a, more careful perusal of the .document, I arojatisfied.bg did riglit. It will clear the airt but of the eyes of many plain, common sense laboring men into which 'these Valiandighamites had thrown it. In this way, it will do good, while it will be such an emetic, to them as will be.likely to make them lie still after.lts operation. Finally, as they had taken spe cial care to let the President know 1 that they were Democrats, he has given them his last dose from their idolized democrat, Andrew Jackson. After such heroic conduct from “ Old Hickory,” of all democrats the most thorough, they must be of a black dye to re ply again, or “ open the mouth or peep." It is to be hoped that we. shall hear no more from this class of demagogues at the north, who, if they could; would ad more da mage to the country than all the southern secessionists ever ean do. Our only wish is that they may all be Sent after Vallandigham beyond our lines; and, kept there till the South is conquered. He must be, a fool after more than two years of this bloody struggle, thinks that we can ever have peace exempt by con quering the enemy m etarmis. What recep tion did the peace proposals of John Tan Buven, Brady & Co., meet withutithe South? Who does not know that they,were spurned with indignant contempt? are there those who wish to make another trial ? If so, let them go South in person, and stay there. w. M. o. SOME PARTICULARS OB THE REVIVAL* IN MAMMON COLLEGE. [W;E are permitted to publish , the follow ing account of the recept great work in Hamilton College, condensed from a letter to Rev. Ohas. Brown, Secretary of the Philadelphia Education ’Society.] . At the beginning of the second term of this year (the College year) religioh in Col lege k was at a low ebb. The customary meetings were thinly .attended. The stu dents took very little interest in anything of a religious character. There was a general indifference: Many of the impenitent had acquired dissolute habits, and spent their evenings in a billiard saloon in the village of Clinton f and in fact, some professing Chris tians were frequently; found there. You may conclude from this the state of religion in College; but still there was caven enough to leaven the whole lump. V . The pastor pro tem., of the Clinton Congregational Church, Rev. C. H. A; Bulkley, had started a series of weekly meetings; and had induced a large number of his congregation to attend, and by his perseverance and zeal, and the blessing of God,on his labors, there was; a, deep religious interest pervading 'the town.. Some of the students attended his meetings,.' and were blessed in so doing. They mostly attfend ■ church there oh Sunday afternoon. L There were many of them affected by his preaching, but still there seemed to be little interest in college. il think there was-a , latent interest among the impenitent ;, and?; the prayer of the earnest Christian student was, “Lord reviv.e thy work.” There was yht no open idahifestatioh of the Spirit’s, pt'esenceamong us. A few of‘the faithful" in college proposed And started a noon-day , prayer meeting; and there we met day-after 1 ' day, ; sometimes almost in despondency, 46*,- invoke God’s; blessing upon us and our im penitent classmates. The prayers were often apparently earnest.; and pomp -would/pay that God must, certainly bless ns. The ' meetings were continued for several weeks with very' little success. 'There was one convert, Who received his impressions at Mr. ' Bulkley’s meetings ! These meetings were commenced a few weeks before .the day of prayer; for colleges, or, “ Gollege Past,” and when; that day, came round there seemed to be an unnsna! inter est, aniong the students, and some of, the' .meetings that day were well attended, and deeply interesting. This seemed to be a foretoken of good things ; hut alas ! ! the me- ' teor fell and left the horizon, as we thought, darker than before. Still our noon meeting continued, but all were in doubt. At length it was proposed to discontinue the meeting ; but. still we. were loath, to do so.,There seemed to be a distant gleam of light. , An impenitent student was heard to say to a friend that he wished there would be a re vival in college. Some thought this feeling was spreading. .The proposition was made, to ; wait; three days before we would discon tinue the meeting ; and that all should make . it a subject of special prayer.' god’s time. Our time Seemed to be past now; God’s tiffle was coming: I have learned one thing in this; never to limit God to our times The very next day, the light began to dawn. A young man, the son of a, widowed mother, and deceased minister, rose, in the meeting,. and said, that he, had made up his ..mind .the night before, after attending a meeting .in the village, to become a Christian. Another., student followed his'example. They both" said they had been thinking of the : subject" for a long time, and were now'resolved ; and asked us to pray for them: The first of these students Was heard the day before uttering at every step he took' in going to i chapel the most blasphemous oaths. . He was considered a “hard case” on,a fair way to ruin. But ah ! a father’s,,prayers and tears were treasured up and have. a posthu mous answer. The other young'’man had been in college over a year; and had gi vea ‘ the ty much trouble. ’He wits Wild" and reckless.’ These were indeed brands plucked from the burning. -Their appear ance, confession, and requesfe in that-meet ing were astounding to .all." It, was noised about .among the students, and struck all 'with surprise- ~ This was the beginning of good , things ,in -Hamilton College. The ' next” day others came to the meeting to see and hear for themselves. : Some Were attracted thebe through curiosity, doubtless, but they came ; every day saw hew faces ; one after another arose for I prayer.:, some days; four or five; and one day eleven arose and asked; the prayers ,of Christians, .. .Cold and careless ■Christians would confess their,bapk-slidings and.ask for prayers. Thus the work, con., itiniied till the end of the term, about four or •five weeks ; and there were about eight stu dents left who made no open manifestation 'of their desire to become Christians; : About forty impenitent students had arisen 'for prayers, and I think at least half that num ber of backsliders were brought to their duties. ' PROMINENT.MATURES OF THE WORK. Among! the prominent cased was* a mem ber of the; Senior Class, -although this was ! the last class affected. He had been in. the army since he entered college, but served his . time and returned to his studies. lie was probably the most dissolute man in the Col lege. lie had been in a state of moderate intoxication three weeks previous to the commencement of the revival. He was brought to reflection; how or by whom you may judge. He came to the conclusion that, if he. did not want-to come to a wretched end, he must stop right there,. He did; and re solved to go to the meetings. lie came, and all were surprised, although it was notvery surprising to see the chief of sinners there then ; for about all the students came; I think he was thei clearest ease of conversion ■ during the revival., He arose shortly after wards in the meeting and spoke earnestly of the love, of Jesus. Oh, how these young converts talk of the love of Jesus. He wan-., ted others to have that love; and prayed earnestly for them and talked with them. He went one day to ask and bring to the meeting one of his classmates who was de- : termined in spitb of all entreaties-to''resist* the influence of the spirit. He found him in his room; and the bell was ringing the hour for meeting. He begged and entreated him. to accompany bim to the meeting ;, but, he declined, and upon leaving him, address ing him by name he said, “ well, if I cannot get you to go to meeting I know what I can do, I can pray for you.” A member Of the Junior Class had given himself to Jesus. He got up in the meeting one day afterwards and said he had been home; and found that the very night, the very time he gave himself to the Savior, a mother’s prayers were ascending to God in his behalf. He exhorted all in view .of a mother’s prayers and tears to give, them selves to Jesus. Another went to the meet ing soon after the first conversion; and ask ed; after attending a few times' for prayers. He was for some time in deep anguish about his sins, but he soon came out of Egypt, a freeman in the Lord. He said’ in one of the regular prayer meetings, Sunday evening, that he arose that morning, and determined to serve God; and, with tears rolling down his cheeks, he continued “it has been the happiest day of my life.” He is a decided ITU LA DELPHI A, THU BSD AY, JULY 2, 186?,. • . , •. ■ t ■ . f _c±_. L ! L - ‘ tihristian. Another, formerly a very,,wild youth, became the subject of prayer and en treaty; and soon asked, an interest himself itt'the prayers of Christians, ! He came out on the Lord’s side ; and told the meeting one day that he had “ ail object 'to live for now.” He had been wandering about, but he was settled now-; He has :exerted a gobd influ-; ence on his associates and friends. Another had,made up.his mipdto resist .all the.infl.u-. ences. qf the revival, and stay awayifrom the meetings. ! He found'sympathy in a class-, male to’whose room he*went frequently to talk over the subject. He stopped in one day at noon, and said hp thought he would go to ,the meeting .that ,day, but jit should nayeno effect,upon, him:; and asked his as-, soeiate, to go with him. ~ He said He .would; and they joked’fogethef, over the, jsubject, ahd’ said that : no' Demobrats' had arisen' in the meeting yet. ; They went fdfHe meeting' in'thistrifltng' way. : - " seemed t o 'bb‘ much affected while there; and after he went to his room, he got his book to' btudy<;- buthe ‘ could not; his eyes wandered from the.page to...the,,ceiling,, from there ; tO: the, window.. His mind,was not.fitted for study. He was in the gall, of bitterness,,andfelt it. He. found no peace until he; found ft in Jesus. The'associate resisted to the last. ;, A' CLASS PRAYER MEETING, The men that stood highest in their clas ses, and are destined to wield, power in the world, were brought into. the fold of Jesus. The-ihcidehis I bhve related thus far cluster, mostly around our principal extra meetings, the noonday-ones. This was only a centre' from; which went forth influences through all the college'buildings,.and halls.' , Lwill dear! crihe. a class prayer meeting.. It; was , held; shortly after the work began., .Class meetings are customary. THe attendance had been from''six to ten; but at the hour of meeting this night we were surprised to see all come, fa.ces never-seen there beforet/T.he phqlh was. as full; as ft ’is;-: usually jin.; recitation. "The exercises commenced, ' some prayers were offered, and. remarks made. .An opportunity was given to, any to speak or ask for prayer. Ope arose ,on the back seat and; said he felt, himself a sinner, and with deep^,emotion ask ed to be remembered in,our prayers. Another folip'wed, and another, and still another until it Went' ;, arouhd i the whole class, with one' exception;' That was a wild n ydung fellow.' No one -‘expected h'iih to ask for prayers. "He* had been brought to the meeting through the exercise of inus’cular Christianity! on : the .part of a friend, But our faith; was re buked. .He arose, and said .he was a grea.t sinner; and asked us to pray for him. There .was scarcely a tearless eye in the room by this time. It was a. Bochirn. /And all joined heart and voice in singing— ; ‘ “ Bid Christ o’ er sinners weep 1 ,■' • / And shfill our tears'he dry." That whs a culmination of answers to pray, ers: "There miiy' He sSme'jhe'e-tings iri this revival that; will be forgotten,'but' Bnsbne cannot be. It will'have its influence on the minds of the class forever. • ’ Irt these class ahd'hall meetings the'stu dents‘wore brought closer together; and, con sequently they were'scenes of many confes sions, and freer conversations. ‘ These-were the great arteries ef the body. \ EFFECT OF THE WORK IN COLLEGE. Thisworkin college changed the face of things. ! Profanity /and imp'rdper m’oise were' jnot heard among the students; 'The billiard saloon was desertedand, .the hotel, was not frequented. ..The prayer-meeting ,was the centre of attraction ; and all found!'time to attend.-* Hours'that were formerly devoted to card-playing, were'now spent in the pray :er,-meeting-;, and the /very roo.ms ,where youths assembled once to; play cards;; are now the places of prayer*—the gates of hea ven to,many; They came"together stilf bur instead of a pack of cards bn the table, the Bible was'there '; they caine not'to'swear and play, but to sing and 1 pray. ‘ Enemies werfe reconciled, and'bitterness turned to sweet ness; by this revival. . Class' cliques and es trangements were, removed. The Junior claSs, urider the ' influence of these rivalries, were about to close the ses sion with two separate suppers, instead of, one. The revival came in good- time. And when it spread through the college, and af fected these two parties, each camO arid laid' down at the feet of* the other all these so called hpnprablp offices, and were equally unwilling'-to take them. The harrier fell,;. the elass united; and ,had a unanimous sup per. When it came off there was the best of feeljng, and good order. No liquor on the table, and none drunk by the students, as ip times past. ■' ,The openly wicked, arid wild' young-men were the first to manifest any concern in this work, while, the moral men-were the very last, andisome of them not' at all.* There was little or, no excitement,** everything was done calmly and unostentatiously. Some Seemed to, lack clear convictions of sin ;,.but all had a clear view of duty, iand of their ob ligation to seek religion, -i Dr. Candlisli oii tlie Troposea Presbyter rian Union In Scotland. <,-m INFLUENCE OF THE “FREE UNITED” CHURCH. We may bounder a temptation*to magnify in a temporal point of view the advantages of this union; we may be under a temptation to dwell upon the moral power and immense influence /which this union would'give to the dis-Estahlished Churches of Scotland—this Free United Church of Scotland, not only in this country, hut over the world, ( Applause.) But I look forward to the future not merely as holding out very bright prospects of in creased .power and ihcreaspd influence, hut as involving very grave responsibilities ; 'arid I would desire our friends looking upon this union arid anticipating the future, to an ticipate it in that spirit, fob if it should please the Lord to make us who have been two separate Churches in the land and bring us all together, I hope not-a solitary brother on either sideleftbfehind—if it should please him thus to weld us into one,' can we doubt that it will be for some great Work connected with the glory of His, name. Sir, if' I could venture to hope that within a few years this blessed consummation could be reached, and a Free United Church of Scotland, thorough- ly Calvinistic, thoroughly Presbyterian, tho roughly non-pstahlisedj set up.-in. the .land,' prosecuting zealously the two ends which each of the two Churches,is now prosecuting, as regards both home and foreign,missions— I'pay, I cannot doubt that an influence would be exerted; not only upon" the whole comfflu ; nity generally,’ but I will say, Without of , fence, on the EstablishedHhuhch itself. If we could present' to Scotland, and'to the Es tablished Church, the spectable. of a great body, .united, upon; scriptur.af.prineiples, for prosecuting the work of- God, not distracted ab.out matters: of form. and cer em ony:—not led away by the temptation or an alliance with 1 the broad, Ghurch over the Border, hut prosecuting steadily "the Lord’s,'work, ‘accor ding ’to the! good oldpbtibn of ‘the UalHnis tic Presbyterian iCfiurch.’bf - Scotland (Ap-' planse) our 'brethren wouldbecom'e ashamed 'of 'these, gew-gaw; novelties-they .seem to-be : desiring—-(loud applpas,e)—rTandwl; amipersila-: ded,also, that in thafe: suph a spectacle, were exhibite.dj ,their,.prpfessors; of theology, instead of cnltiv.ating '.the; inti macy on theological ground—even of the Maurices and; the Stanleys, and others ' of the Broad 1, Church across the Border—would be ! right -glad to come hack again to old Sooteh theology.’> (Much-Applause.) , ■ ■ And if we-couldipresent such a Church in Scotland; I believe; ’that We 1 , should; see; & speedy, end put ;to influences which., I -must say at,, this -moment.-, fill .my mind ; with, the deepest, alarm,,for t cannot look at,,the Es tablished university,apd the men who there arb presiding, over, the ' theological training of students—(hear; hear)—but with the very deepest alarm. (Hear, ‘ Hear.) 'For if 'un ■ sound views or latitudinanan principles begin ;in,the Established halls of the country, they >wiU not end;there.- They will;pervade other bodies, and :I believe,-that nothingywill check the,progress of such .evils as thiese so, effectu ally .asfhis .very union: which we ,are now proposing.- It .would make, ,us heart and hand united, shoulder to shoulder, in main taining the old fruth, and-standing oh our giiai-d against all nbfelties. ' (Applause;) 1 DELAY DEFEECATEB, I am very thoroughly impressed with the conviction of the need of caution. . Nothing will be gained, by haste, and above all, by any attempt of the-’nature of patchwork. Everything must bedone’delibefately, plhin dy, and openly between the two 1 Committees. T ani quite prepared" for'a little; delay, but there : are’one or twoi considerations which t seem' to me important. .In- the nature of . things, I.do not,thirik,this is a case requiring f great delay, and for,, this.plain.reason,.that., it is not one 'ini which We., go,into. a.negppia- : tion* where unforeseen difficulties may be expected to arise. Almost all thesi are pa tent and' palpable already; .they lie on the •surface ; we have talked- ofothem openly. I could conceive a*-nggociatiott:4n'.which diffir cutties might be started, and new questions •raised;: so tfljit the hegoeiations might be in definitely protracted,.,, That need not be the base rhere, We, know pxactly the, points of, difficulty before the . conference, and there fore it need not be protracted. AVe can tell perfectly well what are the points on which we wish'- a Conimon understanding; before we .taeet. ' And then I help thinking that this is a casein which the proverbs mayap- Pare dangerous , and -‘what is .done well ispdonemlh the, better if it, be done, quickly ’’-^.(applause)—“there. is a tide in the, affairs of men, which, taken, at the flood', leads on to fortune.” We all)know, ,if the tide be allowed to' turn, ‘the difficulty increases. NoW, there is ’a tide r at ;th’is mo :meht in the direction of, union. Men)s hearts are warmed; men’s feelings are interested. I do not say that the union should be deter mined by mere feeling—that it should be a matter of impulse ; but impulse, is often ben eficial even fob stimulating; the under stand ing,' The impulse of the heart-, tiie impulse of moral feeling, especially if it ho the im pulse of Christian charity and ..brotherly love,'is a benefit in-diseussing every question -that can affect the kingdom-of the great, God of grace and. love. We ought nqt, to, contem plate,; therefore, the protracting of these ne gdcistibns,; lest the warm feelings of the brethren shbiild begin td subside; and then’ 'We'hhoul'd' ‘fall iafto-hur-splittinif and word catching, and become ensnared in syllables, instead of broadly unfurling the banner of God’s truth. (Applause.) I have a strong er feeling still, in 'reference to. :,this, whole matter. ; I should not. be. so inclined to .take, part in..it.as.l do with all' my heart, ; if I Aid not believe and were, thoroughly convinced i'n my, own mind that this is .of ,the’ ! Lord—thttt ’it is the Spirit of God' which ' has been moving in the hearts both of bur- people and the sister Church. 1 doubt that ■ the proceedings in the; United Presbyterian Synod and in this As sembly, are the result not merely, of the : presence of God’s Holy , Spirit, now with us and then with them,, but ofnthe Spirit’s workingi-in theihearts mf the members of both Churches. Now, I can’t forget the so lemn warnings of the Divine Word, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God;” “Vex not the Spirit.” Let ns beware of' delay,' of prolonged hesitancy. The’ Spirit is with us, I humbly trust, now; let iis see that we do’ nbt weary, vex, or grieve the Holy Spirit -by needless delays, questions, and disagreements. , Contemplating the vast mag nitude of the movement, let us not forget that as regards Scotland, its magnitude is. unprecedented since ,the- Reformation,,, It is the proposal to rebuild the, walls of our, ' national’ Zion. It is. the proposal to' rear again Jerusalem—-again to nationalize the Chutctfof Scotland;' (Applause.) But, in the view of- its magnitude, "aiid its vast importance, if Wer it could be' said bf any men that' they Were touching-: the ark of Godw in a very delicate mannerj. it may be said of us, and ol our -brethren of the, sis ter Church; and oh! I desire , that all of ns will go’ forward to this work -in .the spirit, of aged Eli, our hearts trembling for, the ark of God. DESTITUTION AMONG fttE NESfttRIINS; ■ ! We havereceived from the Missionaries Wright, Coat), and Cobb' of the Nestorian Mission, now in this country a circular ask ing aid for the Native Nostorians, who-by ‘the terrible exactions ;of their Turkish mas ters, and by, a .visitation, of .locusts have been reduced to, a condition bordering, on, starva tion. The circular says: Many, shocked and in-despair at the pros pect before them, -have left their homes and are’scattered begging through other conn , tries,, especially Russia. As many as 90 have, gone from Geog Tapa alone including our well-known helper, John. While of the condition, .of those '.who remain, our letters recently received thus speak: . “ There is great Suffering from scarcity of wheatin the market, though there is enough in the storehouses of the Khans, who refuse ; to sell,’anticipating the coming of the locusts again < nOxt year, (this season,) and conse quently .a ready market for grain, ,at a high price. Strong men, Christians and; Moslems*4 are.in bed, signing, while the women,' baking their last morsel, Jail into the T.andpor (the native oven in the ground floor of the house). 'Other letters speak of fainili.es in which for a 4 long time they have baked no bread;’ of 'many * living “on ; Kishmish (a small raisin) and sinjeesf fth'etasteless fruit of the, Jnjiib[e)f and of ‘ little, children fainting in the streets from hunger.’ - One father the other day in Moslem—sold-his three daugh-, ters to pureliase, wheat. ’ Buyuk Khan ( the wealthiest and most, crue)iy oppressive mas ter) found a handbill on nis door the other day, advertising him that a band of men had; bound themselves together for the purpose of taking his tifo.; *; .* *, P Beggars swarmed in his yard, but in his wrath, like Pharaoh* he hardened his heart, and commanded .his offi cers to sepvthat the bakers.made;a still more ,seanty supply of , and,sold.,it at a high er price. The village of Sejr, r is better off than the majority of villages, vet .there is suffering ; here such'as we have never seen. We try tci dbny Uurseives of what nine seem' luxuries, that we may have more with which " to help the -poor; hut what’ is the mite that we can give among so many ? for they, come from, afar. At the last monthly concert, the congregation were many times in tearsi at .the terrible recital of suffering.” . , . Christian friends and brethren, we appeal in their behalf to you. Remote and friend less, shall they &e left to pterish ? Mustour missionary brethren there be compelled to witness such' scenes, to see thei r tried helpers, their Christian brethren, the children of their flocks thus suffer, .famish, and perhaps die a miserable death, without the means to'relieve them ?, We beg you, while you have ip your noble charity, sent your.ajiip loads to,starv ing Lancashire and Ireland,, not to forget or grudge a portion for this people, both starv- ’ ing arid oppressed. ' " It is not our Wish’at all "to 1 draw : ff dm, or ' interfere in any wsty withy the receipts of the Board, in making this appeal, or with custo unary or proposed contributions to Its funds; !Let, fthose be 1 sacredy s Rut are there not some, many, u;ho are able and would be glad to minister to the: wants of this , suffering people, in addition to their other works of love and faith'? , ' ' All sums ’that tiiay be' sent for tbis. speci fied- object, Mr’i Jas; : Goedoit, Treasurer A. Bi C. lb■ M. No* SB- Pemberton’' Square*: Boston, Mass., or to Mr. Almon Merwif, -Bible; .House, Astor Place,. New York, .will be thankfully acknowledged, and fa,ithfully appropriated and distributed by our brethren in.Oroomiah. , Signed, A. 11. Wrtgiit, "G. W. COAN, 4 : - lI.N. Cobb, - i - Missionaries of A. B. C. F. M. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 2, 1863. RiOGIOBS WORLD ABROAD. GREAT BRITAIN. Iffay''Anniversaries.—- -We countover forty different religious and benevolent organiza tions which celebrated their anniversaries in London in May. - The reports, says the- Christian Work,” generally show a de crease; ofrevenue, to be accounted for by the Lancashire distress. Home work has occu pied more attention than usual. . There ap pears , especially to be a .determination !: - - $4,600.00. Besides these there are many’smaller organi zations with an” income of $85,000 and un der.- -• Church Extension. —One of the most im portant movements lor the ''promotion of Church- Extension, that has ever been un dertaken in London, hits been begun recent ly.. In the Bishop of,London's palace, two meetings, attended by persons of .the highest influence,'have been held,., at which resolu itions have been passed, .pledging those pre sent to raise 1,000,OOt)?., within ten years, 'partly for church building, partly for supply ing thh spiritual wants of poorer" localities, in the metropolitan diocese. The fund iff to be called the; Bishop of London’s Fund: The promoters of the scheme have , entered upon it with an enthusiasm which ensures complete iuccess, . >.t, , , ~; i ; 1 Colerlso Condemned. —The Housesof Con vocation iof Canterbury - have -formally eon-' demned Bishop Colenso’s book. The Lower House; appointed a- Committeeat ; its last meeting to examine and report on ; the u bock. The report was approved,,,and a resolution .was'passed by the Lower House, requesting the upper House to take such steps there upon as they might .deem expedient. After an earnest a “judginent 1 ” was agreed to, and cb'mmnnicated 4b the Lower House, that “ the book of the Bishop of Na tal involves errors of the, gravest and most dangerous character, subversive of faith in the Bible as the Word of God.” The Lower House unanimously accepted and concurred in this “judgment.” This decision is im portant, ‘not, only in its bearing on the Bishop of Natal, but as being the first formal Synodical act that Convocation has taken in recent times. ! Those who are in favor of the revival of Synodical power regard this aa a great triumph.' The Synod of Dublin met at Cork, the first time that a Presbyterian, Synod, has as sembled in that city; and the, various reports showed the vigor with which that Church was extending itself in the south. It was stated that the spread of reading habits was modifying the tone 6f the priests ;' some of whom are in the habit of- purchasing' Pbo- ; testant books, and Oven expressing* their ob ligations to such a work as Dr. Hanna’s'Last Days of our Lord’s JPmsion.. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND, Openings for the Gospel. —rin Parip, the facilities for spreading the Gospel astpn !ishihg‘.‘ Wherevbf a chapel is operied-.ft' is Isure to 1 fift, the 'flatne 'wilh the schools. Suppose' the fall' of' the 'temporal power - of the -Pope should'produce' a great void in minds and consciences* if we Evan gelical Christians, were but: ready, : there would be no limits to assign to our hopes, nor : to the, magnitude of the work before us. The Pastoral Conference, composed of members of the Nation Reformed and , Lu theran Churches, voted 68 to ,14 against the adoption of the Geneva (rationalist) version of the Scriptures by the Protestant Bible So ciety.-—Dr. Guggenbuhl, who Has just,died at Montreux, has left his fortune, amounting to 600,000 francs, to the Moravian brethreh of Herrnhnt, on condition that they keep up his establishment under the name of Guggenbuhl JTqsjntal for Crepins. The cost of this, es tablishment amounts to about 80,000 francs a year.-—Mr. Spittler’s Asylum for the re ception and instruction of priests leaving .the Papal church is bldsed for want of funds. ' ITALY. Education in Naples— Tlie efforts made by Government to‘push fibward education are worthy of the highest commendation. Irrespective of the town! 1 of Naples, there have been;established in.. the southern pro vinces up ;to the end of last December, 1603 ; boyb’ schools, with an attendance, of , 60,250 pupils ;.,922 girls’ schools,, with 30,567 pu pils; and .234 night schools,, with 9804 pu pils, This is no mean work, and it will tell wohderfullg on the nexi generation. The muhi ! cipality’of Naples is hdt behirid in;its educatidrial efforts'; while thebe are three Evangelical schools for boys, and one for girls,' under the direction: of the Marquis Cre«i, andißey.,Messrs. Buscarlefe. and Ap pia, where, in addition, to ,th,e bpst gepular,in struction, religious knowledge, drawn from the Scriptures a.s the text'book, is carefully imparted. The number of scholars in these four Bvarigelical schools amounts to'2oo. ! of, the Italian Government on religious m’atters has generally leaned to the, position of the lamented Cavour: “a" free church in a free statewhich is nothing mbfe'thhh. our i American This policy leaves the priests, with all other exclusively ecclesiastical affairs entirely in the,hands of, the Superior hierarchy- Henep, ;if the higher clergy, choose, to punish the lower for adherence to Victor Emanuel’s government, as they do in many cases, _ the government on this principle would avoid all interference. In point bf fact, however, the policy of the government has vacillated on this important subject;’ Rieasbli Interfered to some extent/ Ratazzi left them to their fate. 3?isanelli,:'the present minister of Jus tice and Public Worship, has entered on his office, promising an energetic protection to the liberal clergy, and has issued several ordinances with that object. Thus it is ob vious that the Government is, on the one hand, tul Ailing a. political duty,, and on the other hand, violating that principle of the separation of Church and State>which forms the avowed programme of the Turin Cabinet. It would seem that some degree of interfe rence,is unavoidable in the name of common justice; .just as our civil courts take cogni zance of flagrant abuses of power ou the part of church courts affecting the temporal in terests of the aggrieved party. If Rome persists r in : excommunicating all the loyal supporters of Emanuel it may lead to • the formation of a local and national Church in dependent of the Papacy. Thus the result might .easily he,‘supposing the reform move ment to goon ampng, the clergy (a proba bility which cannot be estimated beforehand,) that the Pope might lose his spiritual power in Italy even sooner than his tern poral. SPAIN: The case, of Matamoros. —-Matamoros the Protestant'martyr of Sp&in was condemned by the supremo tribunal April 23d., to nine years at-'the galleys and loss o£ citizenship. His companions Alhamaand Trigo are con demned to seven years at the galleys.'- A petition for the pardon of thes.e , men, and' others in prison at Malaga, ,by 30,000 ladies of different countries—chiefly of France—many of them Catholics, was pre sented to the Queen at Madrid by Dr. Bon net of Paris seemingly without effect. He writes to this -Christian Work from Paris in May: “We have just learnt that a largg deputation, - among whom are eminent inen ! from, all the nations of Europe, members ,of British Parliament, ex-ministers from Holland and Prussia, distinguished, personages .from France and Switzerland, are proceeding to Madrid, td solicit for the last time the par don df Matamorhs.” Later intelligence shows that' these'demonstrations 'were in all proba bility effective. The- Queen 'has at length given-way to the influeti.ee of the European demonstration, to the extent of changing the sentence of Ma-tamorps. and his fellow mar tyrs, to banishment from the country. SWEDEN. Growth of the Missionary Spirit . A very, undoubted mark of the extended and deepen ed sympathy awakened in-religion, is afford ed by the the past year taken place in contributions to Home and Foreign Missions.-■ Four quarto pages of an appendix to • the April number of the- Missionary Journal are oconpied with,the contributions of the previous, two months. -These have come' from every county, and. in .sprne chses from very po'or people, wbo J %a‘ve in various instances, entreated to be .allqwed to give cherished heir-looms and even'articles GENESEE EVANGELIST—fhoIs No. 893. of personal clothing, as they had no money. Some mosf affectitig. instances of self-denial and zeal amongst the poor have come to onr knowledge. In the midst of all opposition, there is no doubt that the. Lord is silently and powerfully advancing his kingdom in the hearts of many.— Christian Work. MISSIONARY. Western The development of the commerce of Bombay has been almost unex ampled. The 'valute 'of its exports and im -'ports'now exceeds that of any other town in India. The American war'has had the effect of throwing tan immense amount of wealth into, this place. Landowners have seen their estates doubled in value in three years. I was. told the otheriday, .that,orders for equi pages on behalf pf natives, to the amount of 56,0007, ha.d been sent to England lately. ' A portion of the wealth that has been ob tained by the rise tin the value of cotton, has ‘been spent ’in li the erection of new temples'in Guzarat and Kuttyawar. There is. .howeverj ,a manifest tendency to adopt European customs and ideas, carefully dis tinguishing, however,, between those that have a religious element in them, and those that have not. I may say, however, that views of Christianity differing essentially from those of missionaries, meet with con .siderable hcteptanee. ' The essayists and •Bishop Colenso are eagerly laid hold of by young men, who have at some time or other felt the pressure of Scripture truth upon their consciences, hut who have not yielded to their .convictions. They love to persuade themselves that something like the same un certainty hangs about the Book of Chris tians and the boots of Hinduism. The native press has done.agreat deal,to familiarise the rending portion of the public with the views of European infidels. 1 This, and the ungodly lives of so' many Europeans (now attracted hither in *such numbers by the spirit of en terprise), are the two great stumbling-blocks in the way of the progress of Christianity in India. . , , Dr. l Mullen's Statistics of Ten Tears ,Progress in India. —Briefly stated, the pro gress in ten years is this. As to foreign ■missionaries, we must deduct 48 native mis sionaries inci,uded : in the 443 of 1851, which will show that the,number has increased from 395 to 54 ( 1 or some 35 per cent. The native agents have arisen .from 698 to 1959, and of ■the lattei 183 are prdained. If to this we add the fact'that the i nfan t and poor native Church has contributed 21,8097, and of this no less than 18;0007, in the last three years, we have a gratifying proof of its self-devel opment. Still more. hopeful is the fact, which the former,inaccurate returns seemed to contradict, that' missionaries now teach no less than 75,olLb'oys and 21,063 girls, or 96,574 in ali/a. number nearly equal to all those who receive in .State schools a purely •secular and. pop-moral,- education. Of the boys, 48,390 are taught in 1811 vernacular schools, and 23,963 receive an English edu cation in 193 Anglo-vernacular schools, while 3158 are supported in 108 boarding-schools, Of the girls, 4201 are taught in 117 board ing-schools* and 16,862 in 373 day schools. And this’ work is done, by 31 socie ties, chiefly in England and . America, who have 386 stations, with 2307 branches, and 1542 ,churches. Their agents have transla ted the Bible, or, parts of it, into 19 langua ges, have translated books into 7 others, or 26 out of the 30 spoken in the empire. From 25 printing presses they have in ten years circulated 1.634,940 copies of the Scriptures, and 8,604,033 copies of other books and tracts. And all this has been done at an annual cost of (in 1861) 294,0007, one-sixth of which was subscribed on the spot. A quarter of a million sterling is, at the least, the annual tribute of Anglo-Saxon Christen dom to India. French Papists in Eastern- Africa. — Opinion of Dr. Krapf. —From the account igiven by Dr. Krapf to the Christian Work of a missionary tour . which he took early last year in Eastern Africa, we extract the following:. What struck me most was the great influ ence which' the French have obtained on the island Zanzibar since 1 saw it the last time. They Have established a large hospital, su perintended by an able physician, by nine sisters of charity from Bourbon, managed by fifty-six servants, by threes European priests, and an apostolic vicar-general, who acts as quasi-bishop for all the Romanists on the east coast. Until now, the priests have made no direct efforts to spread their religion. They have besides preaching, or saying mass in their chapel-on Sundays, limited them selves to teaching children matters of gene ral knowledge, to instructing them in various kinds of handicraft, to manifesting toward the , natives benevolent feelings, and by physicking the sick gratuitously. The result of all these endeavors has been, that the foreign benefactors are loudly praised, that more especially the apostolic vic,ar is,extolled to the skies for his kindness and refined manners, by which he knows how to charm the natives and Europeans alike, and thus to prepare the way for religious ef forts of a' f direct kind; No doubt, the Ro manist missionaries in our days have learned from past experience,'that it is unwise to speak out at once. . - - An institution similar to that at Zanzibar has also been commenced at Bagamoya, on the, main land: opposite, to the island. They have bought a large piece of ground for the sutn of 11,000 francs, with a view of estab lishing mission stations along the caravan route leading to the central country of Miamesi, which has been described by Maj or -Burton; and Captain Speke. Most of the monetary contributions required for -these institutions are, I was told, collec ted, on the island of Bourbon, where single individuals have given as much as 20,000 dollars .at once ; otherwise the support given by the Propagahda at Lyons in France, would not be sufficient. I, for my part, am by, no meahs afraid of the efforts which the Romanists are making in that part of the world,, for Hr know from experience, that nothing but the pure Gospel and the Spirit of God ean ; conquer the inveterate and ma terialistic paganism lyiich, prevails all over Eastern Africa. AH Other endeavors will be fruitless in thejend, and the agents will re tire in despair, as was the case at Gondohoro, on the Upper Nile. The Romanists make a